Thom Dibdin

1 week ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? It’s another week for braw amateur productions, with a nicely spread quartet on offer. But the best news is that there are still some tickets left for F-Bomb Theatre’s Monumental, this Saturday and next. Inspired by Sara Sheridan’s book Where Are The Women? Monumental is a walking tour which explore the lives of five women who deeply impacted, lived, and worked in Edinburgh, played by actresses in the absence of any statue to them.

2 weeks ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

Scottish theatre awards set June date at TravThe annual ceremony for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) is to return to Edinburgh’s Traverse on June 8, with a new award celebrating Scotland’s pantomime productions. Tickets to the ceremony go on sale to the public tomorrow, Thursday 1 May. It will be hosted by actor and panto legend Johnny McKnight, who has been described as the ‘vanguard of post-modernist panto’ for his productions at Glasgow’s Tron and the Macrobert in Stirling.

2 weeks ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Josie Dale-Jones |Abbi Greenland |Rachel Lemon

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? A select listing this week as one biggie opens, another returns and braw new local company puts on some new work. The big opener is Moulin Rouge at the Playhouse (ends 14 June: tickets) the big and no-doubt slick stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic world of splendour, eye-popping excess, glitz, grandeur and glory.

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week? This Easter Week sees one of Edinburgh’s biggest community productions return for the Easter Play on Saturday, the final week of Wild Rose and a whip-cracking Calamity Jane. The big show in town is the Watermill Theatre’s whip-cracking Calamity Jane, (Tue – Sat: tickets), first seen in 2014 and now out on a 34 date tour before hitting the West End. Carrie Hope Fletcher takes the title role as the biggest mouth in Dakota territory and always up for a fight.

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lung Ha Theatre Company, All Edinburgh Theatre has been delighted to collaborate with the award-winning professional company for actors and theatre makers who are autistic or learning-disabled. Lung Ha have marked the occasion by commissioning a series of portraits of every member of its 24-strong ensemble from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. Æ has published the individual portraits over the year of celebrations (see our News story: Lung Ha hit 40).